Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:21:25 -0800 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's in my hard drive? How can I get rid of it? Message-ID: <CADy1Ce4bPqzp_DF8%2B4BOnKjM%2B=z_PdNJWqgqLXbHM8bM5vg7Cw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54E4E2F0.8040208@FreeBSD.org> References: <54E39F83.70002@gmail.com> <mc0ad5$qu2$1@ger.gmane.org> <20150218173047.GA53030@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54E4E2F0.8040208@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 18/02/2015 17:30, Roland Smith wrote: >> HF can definitely free you of all worries about harddrives. > > To be sure. It's skin permeable and has a high affinity for calcium, > which -- amongst other effects -- tends to perturb your heart rhythm. > Enough HF, and you'll never worry about harddrives again. > > If that doesn't kill you, then it will leach calcium out of your bones, > which causes the affected areas to swell up and turn comically rubbery > and results in weeks of agonizing pain. > > HF is also not that strong as an acid -- less so than common or garden > HCl. For this purpose however (dissolving lumps of technology), I'd go > with something that was also a strong oxidant viz. conc Nitric Acid. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Or aqua regia, perhaps. Unless you go the combustible route, with thermite. Kurt
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